Home Soil
©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
When the
Bough Breaks

©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved.
Episode 17 Episode 18
Airdate February 22, 1988 Airdate February 15, 1988

Catalog Number PILF-200602
Format Extended Play CLV
Languages English
Japanese
Table of Contents
Running Time 91 minutes
Side Running Time
1 45min 59sec
2 45min 51sec
91min 50sec
Pressing Location Pioneer LDC - Japan
Retail Price Available in
Box Set Only
Issued September 10, 1995


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Home Soil
Directed by Corey Allen
Teleplay by Robert Sabaroff
Story by Karl Geurs & Ralph Sanchez and Robert Sabaroff
Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry
Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Denise Crosby
Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden
Marina Sirtis
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton
Guest Stars Walter Gotell
Elizabeth Lindsey
Gerard Prendergast
Stardate 41463.9
At the Federation's request, an Enterprise away team beams down to Velara III to observe a group of terraformers, scientists who are working to generate life-forms on the barren planet. But when a terraformer engineer is killed in a bizarre accident, the starship team begins to suspect a destructive presence at work.

Data (Brent Spiner) and Geordi (LeVar Burton) discover a microscopic inorganic life-form, the Microbrain, that seems to be trying to communicate. Once on board the Enterprise, the Microbrain reveals that the terraformers' work has been killing the Microbrain's species. Now the Microbrain has declared war on the terraformers and the Enterprise.


When the Bough Breaks
Directed by Kim Manners
Written by Hannah Louise Shearer
Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry
Starring Patrick Stewart
Jonathan Frakes
Also Starring LeVar Burton
Denise Crosby
Michael Dorn
Gates McFadden
Marina Sirtis
Brent Spiner
Wil Wheaton
Guest Stars Jerry Hardin
Brenda Strong
Jandi Swanson
Paul Lambert
Ivy Bethune
Stardate 41509.1
The Enterprise accidentally discovers Aldea, a utopian world hidden behind a sophisticated shielding device. After initial contact is made, tragedy strikes when several children disappear from the Enterprise, Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) among them.

The crew is shocked when the Aldeans reveal that they are responsible for this heinous crime. Having lost their ability to reproduce, the Aldeans need the children to perpetuate their dying race. As Picard struggles to find a method of penetrating the planet's shield, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) discovers the Aldeans suffer from radiation poisoning which is slowly destroying the planet's atmosphere. Can the starship crew rescue its children from a dying planet?


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